Thief Steals Sensitive Data from NYPD Warehouse

Personal information on more than 80,000 current and retired New York police officers was stolen from a supposedly secure data warehouse that stored NYPD pension fund data.

The stolen data, stored on computer bakup tapes in a facility managed by the Port Authority, included names, addresses, Social Security numbers names, bank account numbers and medical records of officers.

The thief, who worked at a different location as a communications director for the pension fund, entered the guarded warehouse on Staten Island on a Saturday morning using an expired ID badge and and disabled a surveillance camera before making off with eight tapes of data.